Anastasia Sergeyevna Pavlyuchenkova is a Russian professional tennis player and a multiple junior Grand Slam champion. Pavlyuchenkova first made headlines by winning the 2006 Australian Open junior title by defeating Caroline Wozniacki. She then proceeded to win the US Open junior title against Tamira Paszek and defended her Australian Open title in 2007, defeating Madison Brengle. Anastasia also played for the Sacramento Capitals of the World Team Tennis league in the summer of 2006. Her success in juniors enabled her to enter ITF and WTA tournaments, winning a small ITF tournament in Italy in May 2006. In 2010, at the Monterrey Open, Pavlyuchenkova won her first career title by defeating Daniela Hantuchová. Pavlyuchenkova won her second WTA Tour singles title at the 2010 İstanbul Cup by defeating Elena Vesnina in the final. She is currently coached by her brother Aleksandr Pavlyuchenkov..
